Wherever you live on our beautiful planet, you’re welcome to subscribe to SF Blog. We have one foot of snow already here in Québec City, it’s fun ! Today we’re introducing you how to repair casting defects cost-effectively using the ATOMWelding machine. SF supports, stocks and distributes ATOMWelding for North America. Check the videos below and request a trial on your castings today. Continuer la lecture de « How to Repair your Casting Defect ? Use ATOMWelding machine. »

How riser and gating system should work ? How to avoid casting defects and minimize your cost? Let’s measure it using simulation! Save money on your 2018 casting jobs by training your team. Next trainings are in California and Ontario on the world’s most effective casting simulation software. Click this link to register :

Which alloy ? Which design ? How to increase your profit as a casting buyer and OEM? Today on Foundry Solutions blog, we’re excited to invite you and subscribe to the new online e-magazine called Part Buyers Authority. SF is thrilled to be among contributors. Before we continue on how casting buyers work with SF, here’s the link to subscribe to the magazine :

Welcome on SF blog , with readers from all over the world! We invite you to subscribe today (top right-side bar). This article briefly explains what is ablation casting and why it’s a game changer. Thrilling results and discussions from technical papers are highlighted below. Did you know about Honda NSX ? Continuer la lecture de « What is ablation casting ? »

You know that testing for mechanical properties or X-Ray won’t avoid scrapping your aluminum casting. We can pray but it’s too little too late : we need to work with the liquid metal, not the solid casting. And ASTM standards won’t help us much on reaching your energy efficiency and low scrap rate objectives. Best practices and data will. This article offers a sneak peak of the recent MODERN CASTING survey on melt control practices ( figure 1 ). Then a word on thermal analysis for liquid aluminum quality control and simply, why spectrographic analysis is not enough to make good money out of your melt. In the end, you’re getting your foundry more and more into John Campbell’s bi-film code , right? Continuer la lecture de « Thermal analysis, spectrometry and bi-film code for your liquid aluminum quality ? »

Welcome to SF blog ! Today we look into Dr. Apelian’s team paper review published by the AFS in 2016 on oxide inclusion detection methods for aluminum melt cleanliness. Then, we open with R&D work in progress by SF for hydrogen and oxide bi-film related porosity control in aluminum melt using thermal analysis. Which method do you use ?

Wherever you live on our beautiful planet, welcome to SF blog hosted from Québec City! Today’s article shares preliminary results from a series of tests SF is conducting to understand performance of different thermal analysis cups for iron chemistry (with tellurium). The goal consists in investigating if there are differences between MeltCup and QuickCup that could influence your repeatability in %Carbon thermal analysis. Continuer la lecture de « How your MeltCup and QuickCup %C combustion analysis compare? »

Have you ever been there? Beautiful mountains, hikes, great kayaking… Vancouver area is a true natural wonder! Still, it was all about castings at the AFS Northwest regional congress last week. In this context, SF happily accepted the invitation and traveled 4,800km to give a lecture on thermal analysis for aluminum, iron and steel foundries and discuss why casting simulation goes hand-in-hand with thermal analysis for more profits.

Are you making metal fabrications and you want to open your design horizon to the cost-effectiveness of castings ? Maybe you are a casting designer for a foundry and you want to optimize metal yield ? This article announces that SF and the engineers behind SOLIDCast, FLOWCast and OPTICast are now working together for cost-effective casting design simulation, comparison and optimization in Canada. How do you choose from the casting simulation software list? Do you really need casting simulation? Continuer la lecture de « Your new casting design simulation, comparison and optimization service in Canada »

Which features would you like to unlock for the casting defect app ? Dowload is ready on Google Store so today, we invite you to help us test phase 1 beta for free and share your thoughts, first impressions, ideas of improvements, casting process info and solutions to add, etc. More info at www.castingdefect.comContinuer la lecture de « Casting Defect app phase 1 beta »

Wherever you work on our beautiful planet, let’s start a win-win business relation together in 2016 ! Here are our three main clients’ profile. How do they cash into our expertise at Foundry Solutions Metallurgical Services Inc. ( SF ) ? But first, what is SF ?

How do you correct your melt in order to control stability ? What is shrinkage casting defects potential in the melt ? In this article, we’re not referring to gating design, casting geometry or casting procedures. Today, let’s discuss the metallurgical shrinkage tendency of the melt itself. David Sparkman at MeltLab presented this theory at the Ductile Iron Society last October 2015.

Do you carry your mobile phone on the foundry floor? Then, why not use it for more consistent castings ? Let us present to you why our new casting defects app will become a must-have in 2016-2017. We’re very excited to be the first using it here in Québec. www.castingdefect.com

Do you know what is recalescence on a cooling curve ? How easy it is for your foundry to become more profitable in 2016 by measuring recalescence before pouring your castings ? David Sparkman from MeltLab and Yohan Tremblay from Foundry Solutions teamed-up to explain us why foundrymen should really care about recalescence. Continuer la lecture de « What is recalescence and why you should care ? »

What really is recalescence and how do you control it for your castings ? On an other line of thought, how do you live bribery in your industry ? Here is just some of what you get in the free MeltLab newsletter, always sharing thoughtful insights and original topics to improve foundry understanding. We are subscribed, are you ?

From beautiful Québec City to you, wherever you are on our awesome planet, welcome to this new metallurgy and casting blog ! Today, we brief you on what you can expect with your free subscription to the SF blog. Maybe you have a special request ? Continuer la lecture de « New Metallurgy and Casting Blog »